LAHARPE — As the adage goes, many hands make light work — especially if you have some heavy industrial equipment on hand.
The LaHarpe PRIDE Committee’s annual Cleanup Day made the weekend a bit spiffier for 20 local property owners.
Volunteers spent the better part of Saturday clearing yards of assorted household items and piles of brush and limbs left over from the mid-July storms that blasted the area.
PRIDE members received plenty of help. Five Kansas State University Service Team members sacrificed a leisurely weekend to help with LaHarpe’s cleanup. Nelson Quarries and Southern Star Gas Pipeline both sent crews with equipment. Volunteers also came from the LaHarpe VFW post and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. LaHarpe native and Allen County Commissioner David Lee also got in on the action.
